ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 2, 9 January 2002, Circulation: 907,664+ (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Do not reply to this message. This is a post-only mailing. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see instructions at the end. Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com Advertisement: Scott Brenay sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com All back issues of RootsWeb Review can be searched and downloaded at: http://search-rwr.rootsweb.com/ ====================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE 1. News and Notes (1a. GenTech; 1b. Computer Class; 1c. User-contributed Databases; 1d. New Ancestry databases) 2. New Mailing Lists 3. New Web Pages 4. Connecting through RootsWeb: Taking a Journey on the Web; Healing Old Wounds 5. New FreePages and HomePages (Personal Web sites) 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Guys in Pickups--Who Needs Them? Sharing Efforts; The Greater Sin 7. USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb 8. Humor: Age Is Relative 9. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Contacts, Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; Back Issues ================================================================ 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. ROOTSWEB STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, AND USERS TO GATHER AT GENTECH2002. For all those interested in meeting friends, fellow researchers, and RootsWeb staff and volunteers, mark your calendars for the RootsWeb Gathering at the Gentech2002 conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The gathering will be held at 6 o'clock Saturday night, 26 January, and will feature lively discussion and a question-and-answer session from RootsWeb management about features, functionality, and the future. This is the perfect chance for you to make new friends, ask questions, suggest improvements, and generally have a good time! See you there!--JAKE GEHRING, Executive Producer RootsWeb.com 1b. BEGINNING GENEALOGY COMPUTER CLASS. Join Georgeann Malowney to learn how to take your family history research further using your computer. Malowney hosts a new genealogy training site that starts Monday, January 14. This course (only $29.95) includes such topics as search engine techniques and researching in the right place. Learn how to use your computer to improve your genealogy research: http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=training/genClass5 Class Course Outline is available at: [2-line URL] http://www.myfamily.com/ isapi.dll?c=home&htx training%2Fgenclass5outline 1c. NEW USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ----------------------------------------------- The following datasets have come online recently: AUSTRALIA. The Queenslander and other papers; 1880-early 1900 1,411 records; Helen Castle http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/ USA: ALABAMA. Baldwin County. St. Margaret's Catholic Church 154 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ ALABAMA. Escambia County. Weaver-Appleton Road Cemetery 842 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. History of the State of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs: 1907; 507 records; Steven Williams http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles County. Class of 1977 from Palmdale High School, Palmdale; 478 records; Terri Larson Potter http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ GEORGIA. Miller County. Rawls Cemetery 113 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ GEORGIA. Montgomery County. Galbreath Cemetery 188 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ KANSAS. Meade County. Fowler Cemetery (Surnames A-E) 432 records; Susan McGuire http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ KANSAS. Russell County. Cemeteries 717 records; Gail K. (Noel) Barnes http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MASSACHUSETTS. Middlesex County. 1890 List of Poll Tax Payers of the Town of Maynard; 191 records; Peggy Jo Brown http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tax_voter/ MAINE. Penobscot County. Old Town, Maine Church Records, 1849-1861 396 records; Deb Rollins http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ MICHIGAN. Ingham County. Old Woodlawn Cemetery Records, Leslie. 568 records; Tim Howery http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSISSIPPI. Perry County. Early Marriages -- Bride Index 470 records; Lynda McElhaney Balch http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ NEW JERSEY. Union County. Abraham Clark High School, Roselle. Class of 1950 Alumni; 197 records; Marian Mallory http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OHIO. Lawrence County. Births 1867 274 records; Martha J. Kounse http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ OKLAHOMA. Choctaw County. Clark Family Cemetery. 9 records; Elizabeth Clark http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Clackamas County. 1940 Milwaukie Union High School. 760 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Clackamas County. Milwaukie Union High School (faculty index) 1940; 28 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Multnomah County. 1947 Roosevelt High School (faculty index) Portland; 56 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TENNESSEE. Hickman County. Swan Cumberland Presbyterian Church Campground Cemetery. 749 records; Ova Lee Sawyer and Penny Boyer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Collin County. Altoga Cemetery 736 records; Phillip Snow http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ VIRGINIA. Orange County. "Lines of Families from the Early Years" 1,396 records; Ruth Sparacio for The Antient Press http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ MILITARY RECORDS: 19th Infantry, Service Company Roster, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Nov 1932; 109 records; Robert Kaufman for Alvin J. Kaufman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ WORLD WAR II. 37th Infantry (Buckeye Division) Casualties; 1,592 records; Dean Ab-Hugh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ WORLD WAR I. U.S.S. Muscatine Log Book, Officer and Crew List, 2 May 1918; 64 records; Dr. Brian P. Parker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ WORLD WAR I. U.S.S. Newport News Log Book, Officer List, 1 Sep 1918 12 records; Dr. Brian P. Parker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ World War I. U.S.S. Pensacola Log Book, Officer List, 1 May 1919 13 records; Dr. Brian P. Parker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ RootsWeb thanks the individuals and groups who contribute their data to share with all of the genealogical community. See the full list of contributors at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html WHO HAS THE DATA? Does your state, province, county, parish, or church have a database available that has not yet been placed on RootsWeb and that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies should be posted at WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ ) -- that you would like to share that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host them. See the guidelines, tutorial and examples of data formats for user-contributed data: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/guidelines.html Please use this submission form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 1d. DATABASES POSTED RECENTLY AT ANCESTRY.COM --------------------------------------------- CONNECTICUT. Greenwich Town History http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6075 KANSAS. Leavenworth County. Leavenworth Times Obituary Index, 1983-1993 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6079 KENTUCKY. Courier-Journal (Louisville), Obituaries, 1990-1999 (Update) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D3452 MISSOURI. Appleton City, St. Clair County. Cemetery Records, Vol. 1 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6078 MISSOURI. Barry County. Marriages: 1837-1854 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6076 NEW YORK. Holland Society Yearbook, 1896 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6080 OHIO. Marriages, 1803-1900 (Update) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D5194 OHIO. Wayne County. Tax Lists, 1913, 1914, and 1916 (Update) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D3944 Presbyterian Ministerial Directory 1898 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6077 NOTE: These databases are available exclusively to Ancestry.com subscribers unless they are marked (FREE). To subscribe to Ancestry.com and gain access to these databases, receive a gift, and much more, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/signup.htm NEW UK/IRELAND COLLECTION DATABASE ADDED RECENTLY ------------------------------------------------- ENGLAND. Cheshire: Parish and Probate Records (Update) http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D5856 ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND: Musgrave's Obituaries. Prior to 1800, parts 1 and 2 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D5877 ENGLAND. Suffolk: Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-1626 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D5936 ENGLAND. Worcestershire: Bushley-- Parish Registers (Christenings, Marriages, Burials), 1538-1812 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D5950 NOTE: UK/Ireland Collection databases are available exclusively to Ancestry.com members with a UK/Ireland subscription. To subscribe to Ancestry.com's UK/Ireland Collection, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/signup.htm 2. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- (Editor's Note: The following are mailing lists not Web pages) For an index to the more than 23,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists and easy subscribing options, please visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE to/from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send plain text e-mail with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message body to: [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to: [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ABPLANALP, ALDERIDGE, ALIPHON, ALLARDICE, ALPIN, ANCHORS, ARBUTHNOTT, ARLT, AYLMER ALLEN-OBITS -- ALLEN surname obituaries BADLESMERE, BATTA, BEAMS, BOTTOLFSEN, BROWNBILL CASSELLS, CASTLES, CLATTERBUCK, CORRAO DIMSDALE, DRECHSLER, DYCE FALKENBERG, FREDERICKSEN GANAS, GETTLER, GITTUS HIPPS, HOLLOWOOD KELM, KENTOPF, KERIN, KINNIBURGH, KIRCHHOFF LAIL, LAYNG, LEWTER, LOUQUE, LUCHT MCDERMIA, MONDOUX, MOWERS, MUNDELE NELLIS OSTOJSKI PARUIT, PASQUITH, PAVITT, PHILIPPE, PICKTHALL, POSSELT, POVALL, POWEL, PREISIGKE, PUTERBAUGH REITEN, RETZER, REVENE, RICKERSON, ROBINAULT SAGNER, SHOLTY, SQUANCE, SUFFRINS TUMLINSON URWIN VESPER WEINS, WELLMAKER, WENDELBOE, WERLING, WIND YAUNEY NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS BOONE-DANIEL-KY Daniel Boone and other Kentucky explorers BULGARIAN-NOBILITY - Bulgarian nobility DICKSON-ROBERT - Ancestors and descendants of Robert DICKSON (1780-1833) FOSTER-GEORGE-DESCENDANTS -- George FOSTER (b. ca 1760 Kentucky) descendants GIBBONS-YANCEY -- GIBBONS-YANCEY IOWA-OLD-NEWSPAPERS -- Old Iowa newspapers IRISH-MI -- Irish genealogy in Michigan LATIN-WORDS -- Deciphering and interpreting written documents (genealogical) in Latin MARTIN-QC-NEWENG -- MARTIN surname in French Canada and New England NORTHEAST-GEORGIA-CIVIL-WAR-ROUNDTABLE -- the Northeast Georgia Civil War Roundtable OLD-FRENCH -- Deciphering and interpreting written documents (genealogical) in French OLD-GERMAN -- Deciphering and interpreting written documents (genealogical) in German OLD-MISSOURI-NEWSPAPERS -- Old Missouri newspapers PIRATES -- Pirates (historical/ancestral) POZNER-JULES -- Jules (Julius) Lester Pozner (b. 25 Dec 1857 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 20 Sept 1938 in San Diego, California; wife's name Kathleen O'Sullivan) ROMANIAN-NOBILITY -- Romanian nobility ROSICRUCIAN -- Rose-Croix/Rosicrucians NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AFGHANISTAN -- Afghanistan ENG-SUFFOLK-SAMFORD-DISTRICT -- District of Samford, Suffolk, England FRANCE-GENERAL -- France (country) FRANCE-OVERSEAS -- Overseas or former overseas territories of France--worldwide KREIS-NEIDENBURG -- Kreis Neidenburg (former German state of East Prussia) NY-MOHAWK-VALLEY - Mohawk Valley region TO REQUEST A NEW MAILING LIST: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ 3. NEW WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB ---------------------------- Some of these might not yet be accessible. If one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ [account name] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. CANADA onalgoma -- Algoma District, Ontario UKRAINE ukrodess -- Odessa U.S.A. cabf1905 -- pre-1905 Vitals Index for California kyrmsha -- Ruddell and Martin Stations Historical Association (Kentucky) mnrcgs -- Renville County Genealogical Society (Minnesota) ncedgeco -- Edgecombe County, North Carolina ncrobeso -- Robeson County, North Carolina okhccdar -- Howard County Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Oklahoma) okkbcgs -- Kingfisher-Blaine Counties Genealogy Society (Oklahoma) TO REQUEST A WEB ACCOUNT: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 4. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKING A JOURNEY ON THE WEB By Madelene GrammyGeeGee@aol.com In the early part of June 2001 I was visiting my aunt and during my stay she mentioned that she had been cleaning out an old barn. Among some of the things she found was an old suitcase. I am the self- appointed historian of the family so she thought I might be interested in her find. As we looked at the contents, we found it contained four picture albums, an Army discharge, wedding announcement, birth announcement, etc. We soon realized the suitcase belonged to a family named GERHOLZ. To make a long story short I took a journey on the Web that lasted three months. A RootsWeb site took me from California to Canada from Florida then back to New Jersey again. I was lucky to come across an e-mail address of someone who was also looking for GERHOLZ family. My aunt was then able to return the suitcase to the family. The look on the gentleman's face when he opened the albums and saw for the first time pictures of his grandfather and his father when he was a small child were heart warming. We were so happy to be able give this part of his history back to him. But without RootsWeb we would not have been able to do so. Thank you, RootsWeb. * * * HEALING OLD WOUNDS By Judy Ryden jryden@rogue.cc.or.us Thanks to RootsWeb, I am now a person with a history, and I do mean "history" in its most notorious form. My grandfather was a con man, something I only discovered through the help of many kind volunteers. I was raised in a foster home (a very good one for which I am thankful), but all my life I had felt more or less "dumped." I came through life not knowing much about my family of origin. I wasn't very interested either until three years ago when my daughter informed me that I would be a grandmother that year. Because of my foster family, I knew that all children deserve two things: one is roots and the other is wings. I knew my daughter would be wise enough to give her child the wings, but how in the world were we to supply the roots? I knew only two things: birth father's surname and my mother's maiden name. They had divorced and by that time both were dead, so I had no one to ask. The one advantage I did have was that my maiden name was rare -- PEARSLEY. So I went looking on the Web. When I could not find anything, I turned to the local Family History Center and asked them. They gave me a list of Web sites. Among them was RootsWeb. Using the RootsWeb search engines, I found an 1890s gazetteer listing for a John PEARCELEY as a farmer in Johnson County, Nebraska. Well, I remembered visiting Nebraska when I was about three years old, but I hadn't thought of that visit in "forever." This proved to be a valid connection and from there, I have located family back to the 1600s. Along the way, I discovered why I had been fostered and was finally able to forgive those involved in what I had thought was "dumping" me. I found my maternal great-grandparents and have gradually learned enough of their story to understand mine. Periander C. NEWTON was a prominent man in his community of Kansas City, Kansas; a doctor, business owner, and community activist. But he must not have been a happy man as he committed suicide in 1903 on his wife's birthday. His wife, Julia Donahoo NEWTON, had had six children. The next to the last, a little girl, died in her first year of life in 1892. Julia must have suffered deeply over that loss because she spoiled the next, a son, named Perry Carlton (my grandfather). Perry was nine years old when his father committed suicide and after that pretty uncontrollable. He was in trouble several times, but his mother always came to his rescue, so he didn't learn to take responsibility for his acts. He got my grandmother, Mabel CARR, pregnant twice before they finally married in 1913. But Perry wasn't ready to settle down. He ran off to California and married another woman (without bothering to divorce Mabel). When World War I came around and two women applied to the government for wifely support, Perry's bigamy was discovered, and he went to prison. Out of prison, he apparently decided to return to Mabel. He took her with him to California where he lived the life of a con man. My aunt said, "They would wake us kids up in the middle of the night, pack us and all our belongings into the car and push it silently out of town. In the next town we would be told to use a new last name. We did that so often that I had trouble remembering which last name we were supposed to be using." And then? In 1930 Mabel died in childbirth. My heroic aunt, the eldest of the children, made a brave decision. She turned in her own father. He'd been molesting her for years, and she was now afraid he would start in on the younger daughters if she didn't speak up. When he went to prison, the six living children were separated and sent to live with various relatives (during the depths of the Depression). All six suffered life-long trauma. Now I know why my mother was so deeply depressed that she could not raise her own children. I know, too, why no one talked about the family. But, at least, I KNOW and can forgive. Now, instead of the angry woman I remember as my mother, I see a teary-eyed girl of nine gazing from the train window as she was leaving to go 1,500 miles to live with an aunt and uncle she did not know. Probably no one explained the gory details to her. In her young mind, all she knew was that her mother had died, her father was gone somewhere, and her beloved elder sisters were going to live somewhere else. So RootsWeb, which supports much of the USGenWeb Project and its many volunteers, made a difference in this one family. And, now I am a volunteer, too. Perhaps something I post on the Cass County, Nebraska Web site will help someone else to forgive some old injury . . . and to heal an old wound. 5. NEW FREEPAGES AND HOMEPAGES (PERSONAL WEB SITES) --------------------------------------------------- [Note: When your new personal Web pages at RootsWeb are up and ready for visitors, please send a brief description (use the style shown below) and the URL (address) to: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com Comments and questions about any of these independently authored Web pages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters.] BATH, BATHE de BATHE. The medieval connections of the English, Irish Bath, Bathe and de Bathe families are outlined from 1169 to 1395, with coats of arms, historical background and sources. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bathonia/BaHm.htm BUCHANAN FAMILY AND RELATIONS. This Buchanan family begins in Chester and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania, where Matthew and Martha BUCHANAN raised their family. Their five known sons and one daughter spread the family through Pennsylvania and Virginia; their son Andrew became the grandfather of the Greene County, Pennsylvania line. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~candicelynnb/ CARVER FAMILIES. From Frederick and Albemarle Counties of Virginia to mainly Carter and Lewis counties, Kentucky and Scioto County, Ohio. Plus connections to CASTEEL/STEELE Families in Elliott and Lawrence counties of Kentucky. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kycarvers/ CORNWALL ONLINE CENSUS PROJECT. Part of the Free Census Project, it has started to put census returns online. Currently there are returns from the 1891 and 1841 censuses. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html CREACALL. Includes: CREACOLE, CRECOLE, CREEKWELL, GREYCOLE, GREYCOPE, GRYCOPE, GREYCLOAK, BEVERLEY, HINCHLIFFE, FLETCHER, WATKINS, HOWARTH, WHITEHEAD, SOUTH, HOWARD, DIBLEY, ATKINSON, BOTTOM, ROBINSON, and CLANCEY. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~creacall ENGLAND. LIVERPOOL MARRIAGES AND OBITUARIES. A collection of marriages, obituaries and interesting snippets from old Liverpool newspapers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/main.html FEHRENBACH-AMBS. Ancestors of Karl FEHRENBACH and Anna AMBS who married 24 July 1904 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Both were born in Oberserffhusen (near Boetzingen) Germany. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fehrenbach/index.html GILLON. The ancestors and descendants of Charles GILLON who emigrated from Clydebank, Scotland and came to America in 1922. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillon/ LANCHBURY. A worldwide study in birth/baptism, marriage, and death/burial records for all variations in spelling this name. Additional data welcomed. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lanchbury MISSISSIPPI. Jones County genealogy and history site. Provides links, information about area libraries, local genealogy organization, local cemeteries, lookup service, local events, genealogy-related home pages, and history articles, both original works and links. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~msjones/ NOE family from the Meetjesland in Belgium. Hendrik NOE, the first ancestor found and his four sons -- their trials and tribulations in Assenede, Bassevelde, St Kruis-Winkel and Zelzate in the 1600s; the Overslag, Eeklo, Boekhoute, Zeeland, St.-Margriete, Waterland-Oudeman and Antwerp branches. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~noemeetjesland OHIO. Company H 120th OVI. Unit History and Soldiers' Biographies of Company H, 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Civil War. [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holder/companyh/ companyh120coverpage.html OUR HOME PAGE. Surnames include ADAMS, ALLEY, BRYAN, BAINTER, BENNETT, BLUE, BRADFORD, CLARK, DIETZ, DEY/DYE, GASKILL, HOUSER, JONES, LITTLE, McCOLLUM, SAYLOR, SMITH, VanATTA. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bluebell/index.html ROSSO/ROSSOW. Ancestors and descendants of Johann Carl ROSSOW and Dorothea FISCHER from the Rosenow/Schwandt area of Mecklenburg, Germany, who settled in Macomb County, Michigan. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillon/rosso.html SMITH-ALBERS FAMILY TREE. Surnames include ALBERS, AXFORD, BLACHLY, BROENS, DUNTON, GRAVES, HAINES, HERRMANN, HERTEL, HIRANUMA, HOFFMAN, HORN, LEATHERS, MILLER, MOECKEL, MUELLER, NAKAMURA, PERK, RYKERT, SAITO, SHAW, SMITH, SPORE, WELLER, WELLS, and WESER. Some scanned portraits and documents which are downloadable are included. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~juliet THOMSON/STAMPF GENEALOGY. Continuing genealogy search of the George THOMSON family from Scotland and the Freidrich STAMPF family from Sachsen-Coburg, Germany (now part of Bavaria). These families immigrated to Brooklyn, New York around 1856 and 1861 and remained there for many years. Other surnames: MURPHY, DAVISON, SWARTZ, ROBINSON, GRAHAM, HUMMEL, GORING, BUTKUS, CAIN, CAVANAUGH, THOMSON and THOMPSON, YOUMANS, WILLIAMS, O'CONNOR, and CONNOR. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thejoanie/ ************************PAID ADVERTISEMENTS************************ The Dec/Jan issue of HISTORY MAGAZINE is on the newsstands now but you can obtain a FREE trial copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ Articles include "The History of Anthrax," "1730s a Decade of Political Change," "A Nostalgic Look at the Trolley Era," "One-Room Schoolhouses," "Legend of the Sea Serpent," "Evolving Trends in Women's Hairstyles," and many others. HISTORY MAGAZINE articles cover the social conditions that affected the lives of our ancestors. 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The Foundmoney CEO and Web site was featured on the "Oprah" show and has been helping thousands of families just like you since 1993. Find out instantly. http://7341.foundmoney.co **********************END OF PAID ADVERTISEMENTS********************** 6. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- GUYS IN PICKUPS--WHO NEEDS THEM? By Debra Johnson Richardson richardson@means.net I read Lisa Bohac's story, "Four-Wheeling Over a 40-Year-Old Brick Wall" with a knowing smile spreading across my face. (RWR 4:52 26 Dec. 2001) On three separate occasions in recent months, a guy in a pickup truck has come to the aid of a researcher out in the middle of nowhere, clutching the steering wheel of her car with one hand and holding a hand-drawn map of directions to a ghost-town cemetery in the other. I was that researcher. The pickup drivers remain nameless, but I will forever remember their faces. ( I am envious about Lisa's pickup hero turning out to be kin. This has not happened to me--yet.) Whoever mused that life is stranger than fiction should have added that cemetery searching is stranger than the movies. In fact, it's better than the movies, because you've got the starring role! Heroine family genealogist takes to the Midwestern back roads with little more than sketchy directions and a prayer. Will she find the gravesite of her paternal 2nd-great-grandparents, or her maternal ggg-uncle or her.? Well, you get the plot (and I do mean cemetery plot). Now I know male researchers reading this will be thinking, "Hey, wait a minute! Guys search out cemeteries too." Of course. But this is my movie and being a chick film, it's girl meets guy, sorry. My first pickup guy, so to speak, was a 70-something farmer wearing a weatherworn face above a warm heart. My hero. I stopped him to ask directions and found that this gentleman not only knew the parcel of land I sought but was the very one who now owned the land adjacent. Perfect timing and perfect staging. He had me follow him right to the spot. He then left me, with a shake of his head and a bemused grin, to commune with my ancestors. My second hero, looking as if he'd had either too late a night or too early a morning, came careening down a gravel road just after I'd stopped my car at a country crossroads, unsure whether to take a left or a right. I rolled down my window to flag him down. Now it may be true that men will never stop to ask directions, but it also must be conversely true that when men are asked directions, they know their script word perfect. This one not only clarified directions, but also added a colorful sentence or two on local "landmarks" I might otherwise have missed. The last and latest of my guys was a deer hunter accompanied by his young son. Again I had stopped, unsure of where I was, and again, right on cue, up the gravel road out of a clear blue sky came the pickup. This guy had either spent time in the military or had a mother who minded his manners. "Take a right, ma'am; go a half mile, ma'am and then follow the left lane to the dead-end, ma'am, where you'll see a sign, ma'am." My (polite) hero. Another happily-ever-after ending to a day's cemetery searching. Now it goes without saying that, in the world in which we live, female searchers of backwoods cemeteries must exercise caution. The three "C" requisites are: companion, cell phone, and common sense. Explicit directions are not absolutely necessary because you just might find that when you come to a fork in a gravel/sandy/muddy road, out of the sunset/sunrise/high noon sky there will materialize a shiny red/dirty silver/nondescript pickup. A hero arriving in the nick of time to aid a damsel in distress. It could happen. There are guys out there right now revving their engines, awaiting their cue from that Great Director in the Sky. In the world of cemetery searching, that's Hollywood. * * * SHARING EFFORTS By Kathy Brown kbrown8173@aol.com A comment on the article by Linda Valentine, [RWR 5:1, 2 Jan. 2002.] I totally agree that "stealing" someone's research and calling it your own is a terrible thing that sometimes happens with Internet research. However, I would like to point out that if two people are researching the same family and use the same resources (e.g., census, historical or reference books, family Bibles and family lore) they will have the SAME information. If they post the same information that you have in your research on the Internet -- it doesn't necessarily mean that it was YOUR information. So I really think it is unfair for Linda or anyone else to always assume that it is "stolen" from their research. I want to thank those who share their information. This "GATHERER" of my family history believes that it is part of the fun to freely share information with other family researchers. If someone hadn't shared (though not by Internet) 30 years' worth of research data with me back in 1980 -- I wouldn't have gotten interested in genealogy at all. Some of us don't have the time or the money to do all of the research that we would like to do in person. The Internet has helped us to pool our data and still be able to find out about our family history even if we can't travel all over the countryside. I don't know too many courthouses that are open on the weekend. One week a year isn't enough time to travel to all of the states I need to visit, even if I had the money to do so. And try to find a Missouri census in a Texas library... I would suggest that Linda should put some kind of request on her posts or her research if she doesn't want it shared, or if it is that sacred to her, perhaps she shouldn't share it at all... As for me -- I am PROUD I have -- WITH THE HELP OF OTHERS -- traced my family and am still tracing them. If I can help anyone else -- I will be happy to do so. * * * THE GREATER SIN By Tara Painter tara7843498@hotmail.com Is Internet "gathering" really such a sin? I wasn't surprised to see another post criticizing Internet "gatherers" [RWR 5:1 2 Jan. 2002]. There have been many posts on both sides of the issue . . . However, it is normal practice in the field of history to use the research of another who has seen or handled documents that you have not. It is only necessary that you cite them -- both the document and the source of that document -- not that you contact them personally and ask if it's OK to use their work. It is your job, as an historian, to verify, research as best you can, and to either confirm or disprove "current research." Primary sources always take precedence over secondary resources, but if you don't have access to them, then it is perfectly appropriate to utilize the secondary sources at hand. Your goal, of course, should be to see the primary documents yourself and to verify any secondary materials. A far greater sin is to not cite the person who was your original source. 7. USGENWEB and WORLDGENWEB ---------------------------- The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its states and county Web pages and mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb. THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the USGenWeb Archives submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.htm The WorldGenWeb Project http://worldgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its pages are hosted by RootsWeb. 8. 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